Intersectionality actually is the complete opposite of how problems work. When you notice a problem swathing multiple people of different backgrounds (even if affecting some people worse than others), you try to deduce the common denominator of the issues.
When it comes to something let’s say that others might make intersectional, like fatherlessness in black communities, intersectionalists would just focus on the black aspect, instead of seeing that fatherlessness affects men in general period. That solving the issue of how society views fathers are less important than mothers is the big issue, bigger than how the black community personally sees black men as fathers, seeing men is the bigger picture, seeing men as capable parents, as parents worthy of not denying them their children. And also seeing that men in general are made parents all the time even when they are not ready or capable, all because MEN, all MEN, have not a shred of reproductive rights, if a woman gets impregnated then she calls all the shots and if she wants to keep the baby then he has to deal with it, even though keeping the baby was all her choice, he is now subjected to every consequence of that choice even if he can’t handle that.
Another example, an intersectionalist would see the problem trans men have such as being seen as acceptably male or unacceptably male due to how masculine they present, an intersectionalist would see this as a uniquely trans issue. A non-intersectionalist would see that this is not exclusive to trans men, even cis men who are not as masculine have troubles being perceived as “real men” due to having traditionally non-masculine interests, or due to physical traits like not being tall or muscular or not having a deep voice. The problem here is when you treat trans men as still trans men, despite being men, and I’m just guessing, they might feel like they’ll never belong in being a man if you keep setting them aside and saying oh… but you’re a TRANNNNNS man, you’re different. The goal of being a trans man is to be a man, not to be different, or so every single trans man I’ve met has told me that and felt that way.
Intersectionality can work, but not the way everyone PC nowadays likes to implement it, treating problems as unique to one subgroup ever and creating otherism and divided lines when we really need to be communicating together and finding common grounds and solidarity in the many forms our shared issues can take. United we stand, divided we fall.
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